Fall Break with MadMax

MadMax doesn't like to make the drive from School to Atlanta for a long weekend so we met at the lake for Fall Break.  On Saturday, we went to Walhalla for an auction preview and hit several yard sales on the way back.  Most were a complete waste of time.  I did find this vintage fabric, along with a lot of yardage of three different solid fall colors and a bag of lace and rick rac for $1.

We went back to auction that night.  It is a true adventure in people watching.  It is cheap entertainment.  Max really didn't like the three dealers sitting in front of us.  He particularly didn't like the way one of them thumbed through Southern Living during the whole auction and then would kind of wiggle her fingers like she was making a fist when she bid.  Funny how he reacted.  He had a good night and found $30 (no one claimed it) so his net cost was good:  Ikea looking magazine rack ($2.50), a small shelf for his closet ($1), a powder horn and leather wadding bag, feed sacks with Indians, and a college kids dream --- an entire sleeve of Heineken coasters from the 70's and another sleeve of Pabst Blue Ribbon Coasters from the 70's in box lots of other stuff.

I bought a few box lots:  Buttons, Empty wooden thread spools, spools of thread on wooden spools, two vintage glass pitchers with flowers, and boxes of ephemera.  Spent around $30 plus had a great time, better than dinner and a movie.

Here are pictures of a few of them:

Buttons (plus another bag of buttons on cards)

This is my favorite button.  Doesn't it make you want to know what the dress looked like that this was on?

A Giant spool of thread, I am sure it was from a mill.  Love the wood.

This little sewing kit was in one of the box lots too.  Given the color of the tube and the color of the thread, I think it may have been military.  There are no markings though.  The little tube of needles fit through the hole in the spool of thread with the thimble on top.  Kind of cute.